My hard right neighbor was telling me that the polar vortex is causing the ice caps to grow. I can't find anything to disprove this claim but I didn't want to call BS on him. No snopes, no politifact. But I am damn sick of this stupid cold winter.

Good lord, I've had to fill my oil tank twice this winter, at around $550 each time, and that's with supplementing it with my wood burning stove and keeping the thermostats at 62, I still have a quarter tank left, and if I have to drop another $500 on another refill before it gets warm again, I'm gonna be pissed.

antidisestablishmentarianism:My hard right neighbor was telling me that the polar vortex is causing the ice caps to grow. I can't find anything to disprove this claim but I didn't want to call BS on him. No snopes, no politifact. But I am damn sick of this stupid cold winter.

The polar vortex is always there, over the poles. So, no, the polar vortex moving away from the pole would not likely result in increased ice cover at the pole.

antidisestablishmentarianism:My hard right neighbor was telling me that the polar vortex is causing the ice caps to grow. I can't find anything to disprove this claim but I didn't want to call BS on him. No snopes, no politifact. But I am damn sick of this stupid cold winter.

my lip balm addiction:antidisestablishmentarianism: My hard right neighbor was telling me that the polar vortex is causing the ice caps to grow. I can't find anything to disprove this claim but I didn't want to call BS on him. No snopes, no politifact. But I am damn sick of this stupid cold winter.

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my lip balm addiction:antidisestablishmentarianism: My hard right neighbor was telling me that the polar vortex is causing the ice caps to grow. I can't find anything to disprove this claim but I didn't want to call BS on him. No snopes, no politifact. But I am damn sick of this stupid cold winter.

Just show that retard this map.[scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net image 472x540]

Because to many, that little circle is the world.

I live in Roanoke, VA and I have met people in their 50s who have quite literally never been more than an hour's drive from their home.

spman:Good lord, I've had to fill my oil tank twice this winter, at around $550 each time, and that's with supplementing it with my wood burning stove and keeping the thermostats at 62, I still have a quarter tank left, and if I have to drop another $500 on another refill before it gets warm again, I'm gonna be pissed.

I would advise you get with the times, and gut your old oil burning furnace system and replace it with a multie tiered electric heat pump forced air system. honestly.. you've already spent 1/2 the money for the upgrade in fuel costs already just this one season, and it's only gonna get worse.

central VA farkers on OIL heat? I got a tank of fuel oil in the back yard that you can have for 1/3 the going market rate if you can haul it out yourself. I'm scrapping the boiler and its assorted works and keeping the tank the make a trailer grill

They are going to find me frozen under a pile of dirty ice and snow clutching an empty bottle of whisky sometime in April. Damn this winter has been a rough one. I'm usually pretty tolerant of Chicago's cold winters, but this year has been particularly unpleasant. I'm really sick of my apartment, really damn sick of it, and even more sick of the giant piles of dirty snow and ice everywhere and of my stupid neighbors who keep throwing their crap in the street to save 'their' parking spots.

22 days of below 0F/-18C days so far this year, with more to come this week (possibly breaking a 129 year old record for cold days), followed by another possible snowstorm. Damnit.

Cerebral Knievel:spman: Good lord, I've had to fill my oil tank twice this winter, at around $550 each time, and that's with supplementing it with my wood burning stove and keeping the thermostats at 62, I still have a quarter tank left, and if I have to drop another $500 on another refill before it gets warm again, I'm gonna be pissed.

I would advise you get with the times, and gut your old oil burning furnace system and replace it with a multie tiered electric heat pump forced air system. honestly.. you've already spent 1/2 the money for the upgrade in fuel costs already just this one season, and it's only gonna get worse.

central VA farkers on OIL heat? I got a tank of fuel oil in the back yard that you can have for 1/3 the going market rate if you can haul it out yourself. I'm scrapping the boiler and its assorted works and keeping the tank the make a trailer grill

When the temperature drops below 45 heat pumps can't keep up and you convert to straight resistive electric heat, which is really expensive. Natural gas is usually the way to go, but you need lines in the house to support it. Most older houses use the oil.

Cerebral Knievel:spman: Good lord, I've had to fill my oil tank twice this winter, at around $550 each time, and that's with supplementing it with my wood burning stove and keeping the thermostats at 62, I still have a quarter tank left, and if I have to drop another $500 on another refill before it gets warm again, I'm gonna be pissed.

I would advise you get with the times, and gut your old oil burning furnace system and replace it with a multie tiered electric heat pump forced air system. honestly.. you've already spent 1/2 the money for the upgrade in fuel costs already just this one season, and it's only gonna get worse.

central VA farkers on OIL heat? I got a tank of fuel oil in the back yard that you can have for 1/3 the going market rate if you can haul it out yourself. I'm scrapping the boiler and its assorted works and keeping the tank the make a trailer grill

Heat pump??? After 2 years of living in a house with a heat pump I am OVER it. I cannot wait to get back into a house with natural gas where the air coming out of the vents is actually warm and I don't have a 400 electric bill every freaking month of the year. Heat pumps suck.

The water was cold:All right, that's enough of this shiat!!! Here's the forecast for my area:

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A high of 67 and a low of only 50? WTF?!!

I just packed my electric blanket into the attic, and now I have to get it back down again!

Damn you Vortex!!!

Wow you're a whiny biatch.. If it got up to 50 in Wisconsin you'd see people running around in bathing suits. Get over your so-called "cold" weather and come visit Wisconsin to change your perspective a bit.

Am I the only one that's gonna comment on the fact that the guy is having a rough time getting words out of his mouth? It's like the peak of all the people who've been told not to let an impediment get in their way are realizing their dreams. Freaking movies with speech impediments all over the place are distracting. Christian Bale, yeah, his voice was gravelly for Batman, but it was also like he was channeling Sylvester. Suffering succotash!